International reports indicate that more than 200 million children in the world are forced to work. Many of them are forced and exploited to produce low cost products, which reach astronomical prices in European and US markets. . Ramón Alabau . In Mali, they hand harvest cotton, on the streets […]
Tag: Slavery
Slavery in the Twenty-First Century
On 12th March the University of Hertfordshire will host a round table to address this problem which affects 12 million people. . Academics, lawyers and representatives of the Anti-Slavery International Association will hold a discussion regarding slavery in the Twenty-First Century and the forms in which it continues to take […]
‘You shall not commit adultery’… an old command in a new context?
In the 1950s, Joy Davidman (b. 1915), wrote Smoke on the Mountain, about the Ten Commandments. In this work, she presented a feminist interpretation of the command that ‘You shall not commit adultery’. Nigel Pocock Miss Davidman showed that this command should be understood against a background of women as […]
Slavery by another name: The “Untouchables”… in India
Citizens struggle to overcome an age-old dogma that keeps them unjustly pinned under the foot of social order.– – Kyle Robertson – Many hail the caste system as one of the defining marks of Indian culture; for those unlucky enough to be born into society at the bottom of […]
Honduras: forgetting the child, the criminal is formed
Considered one of the most violent countries in the world, Honduras is also criticized for its neglect of the under 23 year old population and their ever increasing recruitment into the world of organized crime. _ Isabel Soto Mayedo International organisations and local institutions agree that this area is a […]